From the Principles of International Environmental Law to Environmental Constitutionalism

Environmental Law With Non-Human Features in India: Giving Legal Personhood to the Ganges

“…Therefore, it is far too simplistic to understand and present the cases only as evidence of the recent politicisation of Hinduism or ‘saffronisation’ of environmentalism in contemporary India. Moreover, such discourses also reflect lack of attention to and knowledge of earlier significant developments in Indian environmental jurisprudence, which were also motivated and inspired by earlier international legal phenomena such as the Stockholm Conference of 1972 that marked the rise of international environmentalism (Viola, 2022: 128–30) and the need for cooperative influences, linked to Indian models of public interest litigation (Bussi, 2022: 210–2).…”